POLITICAL NOTES: On the Border

The Border, bitter battlegrounds of
national elections, got its first smell of this year's political powder
last week. Congressional primaries were held in Tennessee, Kentucky,
Missouri. Wiseacres tried to foretell the number of Smith and Hoover
votes the three states contain by comparing, this way and that, the
democratic and republican votes cast. But only one thing of immediate
significance occurred. That was in Tennessee, where Finis James
Garrett, for 23 years a member of the House, and since 1923 the House's
boss Democrat, tried to get himself nominated for the seat in the
Senate which now is occupied...